Trump Declares Loyalty To His Off-Brand Twitter As Musk Buys Twitter

As news of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s buyout of Twitter broke on Monday, former President Trump declared that he remains loyal to his “TRUTH Social” app even if his defunct Twitter account is reinstated by the world’s richest person.


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Trump & Musk. . . .a pox on both their houses.

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Sure, Trump won’t go back to Twitter, until suddenly he does.

And, Musk buying Twitter might be a good thing, because if they drop all the moderating of content and allow the right wingers to get their freak on, it’s going to drive a lot of decent people away. No one wants to post some interesting story and be bombarded by Nazis screaming about how you’re grooming kids by being in favor of Medicare for All or some other liberal policy. I suspect this is more about Musk wanting to control an outlet for spreading propaganda about his beliefs and projects, it’s not even clear that he’s onboard with letting the Nazis run rampant on the internet.

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Admittedly, I never used it much.
But this is the best message I ever got out of Twitter;

"## Deactivated

Your account is deactivated

Sorry to see you go. #GoodBye"

(Bots are never really sorry. They’re just saying that.)

Go to your Twitter setting, to the privacy setting and at THE VERY BOTTOM OF THE OPTIONS YOU CAN DEACTIVATE!!!

GO FOR IT.

ITS LIBERATING. (!)

How many deactivations equal a total collapse?

Can we find out?

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Not everyone in Texas or Austin thinks Musk is doing us any favors.

Now more than ever, save yourself and get off of all social media. None of us need to communicate instantly with anyone nor does the rest of the world need to know what you think!

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You know he’s lying because his mouth is open. Certainly, he’ll go back on Twitter if given a chance.

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“Twitter announced that its board accepted an offer from Musk to buy the platform for $44 billion.”

That’s a lot of money to pay just to insure the right of fragile pink men to bravely post the N-word without fear of getting binned.

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“Trump,” starts with a “T” and ends with a “p” signifying TOTALLY PATHETIC!

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“Twitter has bots and fake accounts, and we are doing everything we can [to do that even more–nobody knows bots and fake accounts like I do!]” Trump said.

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And that spells Trumple!

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“Twitter has bots and fake accounts, and we are doing everything we can,” Trump said.

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“I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH,” Trump told Fox News.

This statement represents real growth. TFG is more loyal to his moribund media platform than to any of his wives.

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If TFG’s account is reinstated, he’ll be back on in under 30 minutes. He’ll say he didn’t want to, but he’s doing it for his people.

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This. He will be back as soon as he can and act as if he fans and supporters demanded it.

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“Kirkland Twitter” ?
“CRAFTSMAN Twitter” ?
House Brand Twitter… good luck finding your friends / clients on some off-brand resource

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I like Rothkopf, but it’s freedom of speech and at last check…

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